Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected to confirm Mrs. Mesta with little delay (she had been hostess to plenty of them), so she quickly set about preparing to leave for Europe. She closed "Uplands," her fashionable Foxhall Road mansion, ordered the Mesta mansion at Newport shut up, and moved into Washington's Sulgrave Club. There was one annoying hitch: A shipment of costly fabrics containing materials for the ministerial wardrobe was pilfered en route to Washington, and even the FBI, when called in, couldn't find it. But Perle was not fazed. "It's too hot to think about clothes," said...
Within an hour the crowd had swollen to more than 5,000. In the park along bustling Grand Boulevard busy teen-age gangs hunted down Negroes. Others climbed into trucks and circled the park, looking for more targets. One Negro managed to seize a club from his attackers, flailed away in wall-eyed fear, with blood oozing through his shirt front. When police finally reached him, the crowd hooted with glee. "He must have a skull like a rock," said one 16-year-old. "I kicked him twice in the head myself...
...Hall's 16 years), with Producers Russell Markert and Florence Rogge taking turns at others. They must keep their dreams expansive enough for the stage's electrical and mechanical powers, plus the talents of guest headliners and a "stock company": the famed precision-kicking Rockettes, the Glee Club, Alexander Smallens' symphony orchestra, and the only resident ballet troupe...
...composer (Robert Russell Bennett) had tried to dignify the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball club with a Symphony in D (TIME, May 26, 1941). Last year George (Tubby the Tuba) Kleinsinger had the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill warbling his Brooklyn Baseball Cantata. Last week, all such pretenses of musical dignity were gone, but with two new tunes in their bat box, the National League's colorful Dodgers were slugging hard in the jump, jive and jukebox league...
...nation's airwaves. Of the nearly 2,000 AM stations in the U.S., only one-Chicago's WCFL-is labor-owned. Established in 1926 by the Chicago Federation of Labor, WCFL's programs include broadcasts of football games, the Chicago Symphony, Don McNeil's Breakfast Club, and the Eleanor Roosevelt-Anna Boettiger show. It differs from other Chicago stations only in its vocal support of striking workers...